tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14931163240065370342018-03-13T04:53:11.878-07:00George Chalhoubpersonal blogGeorge Chalhoubnoreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-31062576560812953482018-02-20T15:00:00.000-08:002018-02-20T15:01:16.861-08:00Won't be able to stream on twitch in 2018
I have promised many of my friends to start streaming Hearthstone on twitch.tv, in fact, I even bought a gaming laptop to do that and even tried to test stream once on YouTube:
However, after doing some research it turns that the current restrictions of my Tier-4 visa in the UK prevent from 'being an entertainer' and streaming myself into gaming could fall into a category.
According to 'George Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-4623907430715399722018-02-11T05:52:00.001-08:002018-02-11T05:52:31.263-08:00How To Disable Directory Listing in Apache on Ubuntu 14.04
I found this very good tutorial on a Chinese blog, so it has been translated and reproduced here:
What you see in the picture below Directory Listing in Apache server settings. And this is turned on by default.
To check if you have this problem, try to visit a directory in your apache server location with a browser, such as localhost/someFolder and you will see the contents of this folderGeorge Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-5722317892240307612018-01-30T12:41:00.001-08:002018-01-30T12:41:24.842-08:00Why You Shouldn’t Care What Others Think About You
This article was written by Micheal Miles. I read it in 2012 and really like it. You may get his new book 'Thirty Days to Change Your Life' and support him by clicking here.
Who’s in control of your life? Who’s pulling your strings?
For the majority of us, it’s other people – society, colleagues, friends, family or our religious community. We learned this way of operating when we were very George Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-9564362485796413792018-01-25T12:38:00.000-08:002018-02-12T05:25:30.476-08:00COMP6219 Designing Usable and Accessible Technologies - Feedback
12-Feb-18 Update: this post was updated with a comment from the module leader after my statement regarding 'disabled people':
As we explained on the course In the UK disabled people refer to themselves as 'disabled people' reflecting the social model of disability where society disables people by not creating an accessible environment (e.g. lack of captioning or ramps or accessible web design).George Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-82280355318004703352018-01-14T10:35:00.001-08:002018-01-14T10:37:59.048-08:00Dear Apple thank you for giving me a new iPhone 7 for free
For the third time in a row, Apple has provided a solution for my iPhone problem for free. The problem with my beloved iPhone 7 started when I upgraded to iOS 8. That moment, the Home Button stopped working. The rest is history.
Once my home button got broken, I took it to the Apple Store in Southampton and was furious; and the Apple guru said that this is a hardware problem. I was puzzled, andGeorge Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-87314716173879956052017-12-19T08:01:00.003-08:002017-12-19T08:01:59.552-08:00Music habits in 2017 released from Anghami
Anghami has been using data science to get to know some music habits about me. They analyzed my music habits and they found this:
What the...
I don't know if this is accurate...
Hmmm, Sia was probably in those songs...
Ok, whatever...
50,000 minutes of music? I must really be a music listening addict...
The screenshots have been taken from Anghami can be found here.
George Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-40818991305076741392017-12-10T09:56:00.000-08:002017-12-10T09:56:17.845-08:00Rise of The Tomb Raider (2015) review
I've finally finished playing Rise of The Tomb Raider (2015) and without a doubt this is one of the best games ever made.
Rise of the Tomb Raider is an enterprise computer game created by Crystal Dynamics and distributed by Square Enix. It is the spin-off of the 2013 computer game Tomb Raider (which is a game that I've played as well). As of today, the game has reported to have sold 7 George Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-40137894814000180472017-12-06T11:58:00.002-08:002017-12-06T11:58:39.189-08:00Dear Palestinians Don't Protest In Lebanon
Following Trump's decision to acknowledge Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the illegal and unlawful Palestinian people in Lebanon decided to go on the streets, close some roads, and attempt to further incapacitate this vulnerable country.
I am extremely outraged by this behaviour. Lebanon should not suffer because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is not Lebanon's job to resolve this George Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-11750216874798608012017-10-30T16:02:00.000-07:002017-10-30T16:02:42.371-07:00Leon: The professional (1994) [Review]
This evaluative essay for the movie Leon: The Professional was written by my friend Elie Tom and has been modified to be displayed properly here. I like it a lot so I decided to post it on my blog.
Léon: The Professional is a 1994 thriller film starring Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, and Gary Oldman and written and directed by Luc Besson. The film received favorable reviews from critics and is oneGeorge Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-60645488386660039062017-10-14T10:30:00.000-07:002017-10-21T07:53:01.948-07:00Successful application in UKVI's strict system
I've been recently (~ 2 weeks ago) given a tier-4 visa study in the United Kingdom:
Thank you UKVI for the student #ukvisa. Honored.
A post shared by George Chalhoub (@georgechalhoub) on Sep 26, 2017 at 9:36am PDT
However, I'd be a liar if I say that the process has been easy or straightforward. In fact, obtaining that visa was a long and tedious process which has cost a lot George Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-299586071074103402017-09-05T09:56:00.000-07:002017-09-05T09:56:04.220-07:00iCloud Trauma: 13,625 images and videos disappear and how I recovered them
Imagine that you wake up one day to find out that 13,625 images and videos have disappeared from your iPhone, iPad, and iCloud.com.
This is exactly what happened to my iCloud and specifically iCloud Photo Library. I woke up one day to find out that all of my old images from March 2014 till March 2017 now have disappeared.
I kept refreshing icloud.com/#photos, changing browsers, and researchingGeorge Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-70482700749152754962017-07-16T11:00:00.000-07:002017-07-16T11:00:10.768-07:00Challenge: No Internet & Cell Phone For 7 days
I've known this blogger since I was very young. Inspired by Leo Babauta's post "A Month With Limited Internet, & Now No Cell Phone", I have decided to go offline for 7 days. It believe it is an important challenge. Similarly to Leo Babauta, I:
Make my living on the Internet.
Watch movies on the Internet.
I receive my mail on the Internet.
I manage my academic duties on the Internet.
Study on George Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-1780276910313143572017-07-03T14:23:00.000-07:002017-07-03T14:23:35.088-07:00Recovering a hijacked Facebook account
I can without a doubt confirm that the most hijacked and hacked accounts worldwide belong to Facebook. I have been asked myself to recover more than 15 accounts belonging to my friends or mutual friends. I don't succeed most of the time.
For example, my best friend's girlfriend had her account hijacked 1 month ago. The girl noticed the change one month later. I was asked to remedy the situationGeorge Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-14646000827625526972017-06-30T09:09:00.000-07:002017-06-30T09:11:02.324-07:00How to get the url of the currently playing video of a playlist in JWPlayer 7?
In case you are a JWPlayer fan (like me), you will most probably reach a point where you'd have to use their API. I am talking mostly about the "JW Player JavaScript API Reference".
I have recently been trying to get all of the sources (.mp4 files of the same video, each with different quality) of the currently playing video item from a playlist with multiple videos (2 or more video items). I George Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-58523380175492112392017-06-29T13:32:00.001-07:002017-07-15T09:56:00.889-07:00Can you really hack a Chromebook and get 100K from Google?
It has been almost a year since the search and artificial intelligence giant just announced on its Blogger blog that it is are willing to pay USD100,000 to whoever can hack its Chromebook. In a blog post called, Get Rich or Hack Tryin', Google said:
Increasing our top reward from $50,000 to $100,000. Last year we introduced a $50,000 reward for the persistent compromise of a Chromebook in guestGeorge Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-18550946862986775592017-06-28T01:42:00.001-07:002017-06-28T02:09:22.237-07:00A Hacker's Manifesto [Full Essay]
In few months, A Hacker's Manifesto will turn 31 years old. In honor of this essay, I will repost it on my blog. The Hacker's Manifesto is known as The Conscience of a Hacker. Date released is in January 8, 1986 and the author is The Mentor.
Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...
Damn kidsGeorge Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-21543569559885109552017-04-30T03:15:00.000-07:002017-04-30T03:18:42.160-07:00I just recieved one of the most sophisticated phishing attacks ever
I am not a fan of hijackers and phishing criminals. But social engineering has become the most common to crack, target and steal any online account. Those hijackers either lack the sufficient skills to penetrate a system or the system is too tedious to penetrate or hack; thus they resort to sending phishing attacks. When you send a phishing attack, you can creative as much as you want and the George Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-37218222687139909972017-04-11T09:25:00.001-07:002017-04-11T09:25:59.648-07:00How I built an .exe program that secretly copies source code in the clipboard
My friend recently asked me to create for him a .exe program that downloads the source code from the internet and copies it to the clipboard. Source code can be anything such as Java, PHP or Python. Without doubt, the program would only work on Windows machine. My friend also wanted:
1. The program to retrieve the code from an URL which links to a text file.
2. The program should work silently,George Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-92153733438627561642017-03-16T01:26:00.000-07:002017-03-16T01:26:08.682-07:00Trimming videos via FFMPEG
After continuous insisting from my friends, I have recently set up my Steam account and purchased two games, Portal and Portal 2. And I have also been recording the screen and audio while playing just for archival and other purposes such as uploading them to YouTube and profit from videos that get high hits.
Portal 2, for example has many chapters and in each chapter you have a singnificant George Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-36890371654125394632017-02-27T23:03:00.000-08:002017-02-27T23:03:14.318-08:00Answering LOST's most confusing questions
Fifteen years ago, a phenomenal ground-breaking series aired on Abc Family, the show is called "LOST". This show was confusing to plenty of viewers who especially didn't understand the ending and plenty of confusing questions throughout the series. I have recently rewatched the whole series and I will attempt to answer most of LOST's confusing questions.
Why didn't the black smoke kill the George Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-31228935924986422082017-02-27T22:31:00.000-08:002017-12-06T11:59:15.526-08:00Evidence shows majority of Palestinians aren't civil
In this blog, I will list the evidence that I found which suggests that a majority of Palestinians are not civil. I have coined the evidence to present it to my apologist friend who is working on his PhD in the United States. There might be more evidence online but I will stick to those for the moment.Here are main points:
Support for Ismail Haniyeh
The Palestinian Center for Policy and George Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-36544769051078537622017-01-04T13:26:00.000-08:002017-01-05T07:08:33.515-08:00Google's FIDO U2F Security Key: Taking two-step authentication to another level
A prominent Computer Science professor, Dr. Ramzi Haraty, said once "No system is fully and 100% secure". I was 18 years old when I heard that statement back then, and I didn't really take it seriously.
However, as I grew older, I realized how that statement was entirely true, beyond any reasonable doubt. Matter of fact, there isn't any service, login page, software, database or website that George Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-36991449308987499872017-01-03T12:14:00.000-08:002017-01-03T12:14:56.240-08:00Starting 2017 with the "Nordic" template on this blog
I have recently realized how much I started to hate complicated blogging themes that are full of animations, design and javascript loaded that slows down the page, although I used them for years.
But I have recently realized I want something very simple, a clean cut design that lets u focus on content instead of anything else. I have been very lucky to find "Nordic" template, an immaculate George Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-86236440601216861352016-09-11T08:23:00.000-07:002016-09-11T08:23:58.531-07:00Bruno Tabbal's new music video
Music video directed by: Bruno Tabbal
Starring: Cynthia Khalifeh
Featuring: Cynthya Karam
Director of Photography: Toufic tabbal
Producer : Ralph Tabbal
Art director: Joseph Khoury
Assistant Director: Jamal Jaafar
Lyrics: Ahmad abdel Nabi
Music: Jad Mehanna
Arrangement and mix: The AB Brothers
Sponsored by: MARTINI
B-QĀ DE MARSYAS
Watch "LAYLI WARA LAYLI" here:
George Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493116324006537034.post-28043675076606705332016-03-17T03:51:00.001-07:002016-03-17T03:51:26.658-07:00It is 2016 and Payoneer still does not offer two-step authentication
In summary, this blog post is about Payoneer not offering two-step authentication for its members despite numerous requests.
As of March 17, 2016, Payoneer, a world-renowned company with more than 3 million customers, does not offer a two-step authentication protection for its members.
Founded in 2005, Payoneer provides financial services and online money transfer services worldwide. It is George Chalhoubhttps://plus.google.com/117437652390651355274noreply@blogger.com4